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The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity

The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity

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Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Pol

General Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 041553836X
ISBN13: 9780415538367
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 31 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years.

Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an 'analytic of irregularity'. It brings together authors who address issues of mobility and irregularity from a range of distinct perspectives, to focus on the politics of control as well as the politics of migration. The volume develops an account of irregularity as a produced, ambivalent and contested socio-political condition, showing how this is activated through wide-ranging 'borderzones' that pull between migration and control. Covering cases from across contemporary North America and Europe and examining a range of control mechanisms, such as biometrics, deportation and workplace raiding, the volume refuses the term 'illegal' to describe movements of people across borders. In so doing, it highlights the complexity of relations between different regions and between a politics of migration and a politics control, and makes a timely intervention in the intersecting fields of critical citizenship, migration and security studies.

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